2013 Fall

Sept. 10: Jorn Dunkel (MIT)
Inconsistent thermostatistics and negative absolute temperatures
Sept.16: Yves Couder (Universite Paris Diderot)
Special Seminar - Joint with Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Monday - TIME: 4:30 PM in Room E17-122
Time in Self-Organization Phenomena
Sept. 17: Tristan Gilet (Universite de Liege, Belgium) and Lydia Bourouiba (MIT)
Rain-operated foliar disease transmission
Sept. 24: Karen Alim (Harvard University)
Optimizing transport in the vein network of Physarum polycephalum
Oct. 1: Jon Wilkening (University of California, Berkeley)
Special Seminar - Joint with Numerical Methods for PDEs
Traveling-Standing Water Waves and Microseisms
Oct. 8: Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University)
Spreading of Insoluble Surfactant on a Thin Liquid Film
Oct. 15: HOLIDAY - NO SEMINAR
Oct. 16: Esteban Tabak (CIMS/New York University)
Joint with Numerical Methods for PDEs Seminar
Wednesday - TIME: 4:00 PM in Room E17-129
Conservation Law Modeling of Mixing in Layered Hydrostatic Flows
Oct. 22: Miha Ravnik (University of Ljubljana)
Topological Soft Matter from Nematic Liquid Crystal Colloids
Oct. 29: Mark Bathe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Inferring and Programming the Structure and Dynamics of Macromolecular Machines
Nov. 5: Denis Terwagne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Drag Control through Wrinkling on Curved Surfaces
Nov. 12: Ramis Movassagh (Northeastern University)
Optical "Bernoulli" forces
Nov. 19: Pierre-Thomas Brun (EPFL, Switzerland)
From the viscous sewing machine to microfluidic pancake droplets
Nov. 21: Ho-Young Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar
Thursday -- 2:30 PM in Room 66-144
Physics of painting and writing
Nov. 26: NO SEMINAR
Dec. 3: Knut Drescher (Princeton University)
Biophysics of Biofilms
Dec. 10: Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge)
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